Kamala Harris caves on muted mics during debate

Vice President Kamala Harris was holding out to get her way in the upcoming ABC debate against President Donald Trump, but she's since backed down. Originally, she wanted the candidates' microphones to remain unmuted for the entire debate.

Presumably, she was hoping to catch Trump making an outburst of some kind of comment while she was speaking so that she could revisit her famed "I'm speaking" moment from her debate against Mike Pence in 2020. She and her campaign have since relented.

Harris reportedly also wanted to have a debate in which both candidates sat at tables and were able to access their notes, as her debate against Pence was staged when the two ran against each other for Vice President. The Trump camp was opposed to that, too. Now, in a letter to ABC, Harris' senior advisor for communications Brian Fallon said that the current debate format "fundamentally disadvantaged" Harris.

The idea, Politico reports someone at ABC who read the letter saying, was that muted mics would be "denying the former prosecutor the opportunity to fully cross-examine the GOP nominee."


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